Planning ahead is a must when playing poker in Los Angeles. Even though you may only be 10 miles from a poker room, it could easily take you an hour or more to reach your destination via car. For the most part, poker players in LA are restricted to their most accessible poker room. Your game and limit of choice will be the presiding factors in determining which LA casino is best for you.īeyond this, there is another big consideration-traffic. Select rooms have 100+ poker tables and others run closer to 20. Some casinos only run low limit games while others offer many high stakes games. At any given time in LA, there are hundreds and hundreds of games to choose from at the multitude of casino card rooms that operate in the area.Įach of these poker rooms has their own individual characteristics that help to set them apart from one another. Playing host to the largest poker room in the world, Commerce Casino, it has no shortage of options. Overall I did well (luckily haha) and stayed for 7 hours but out of the 16 casinos I've played poker at ( Vegas, Atlantic City, Chicago,Tampa, Philadelphia) this casino was by far the most bizarre experience.The Los Angeles poker scene is one of the most dynamic in the world. This is a place to play higher levels than usual due to the low buy ins and all in action. Grinding here longer you will indefinitely lose money.ġ0. These games are meant for quick lottery money and bounce. These games you can't apply normal strategies which may cause your game to be thrown offĩ. No comps and all drinks must be paid for, including soft beveragesĨ. Homeless people Play at this casino due to the very low buyins ($20). ( this will cost 14% of your initial $200 stack if you fold your BB)Ħ.

The $6 rake plus $8 SB/BB per orbit will eat your stack slowly, so be committed to any hand you decide to play. Because of the low capped buy ins, there is alot of action but you will have players that will keep hands that normally would fold in the same circumstances.ĥ. Because of the low buy ins and high rakes, all limpers will call any bets preflop.Ĥ. (If you decide to come and play 1/2,2/3.or 3/5) There is ZERO fold equity when it comes to preflop raises. This is why 5/5 nl is the only one with the biggest active tables running. Although this means you are committed to the small blind already, the stack/betting ratio is more promising than any other table. And 2/5 $500 bank roll is 5/5 nl at commerceĢ.The only table that makes logical sense to play is 5/5 NL with the buy in up to $500. If you normally play 1/2 nl with a $200 bankroll, you will need to play 3/5 instead. Here are some information that I wish someone told me prior to comingġ.

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